*In a singing voice* You can find it all, every item in the cosmos. Come one and all, to the one stop shop, it's Quest Buy! *Dramatic pose with crickets in the background.*

Wandering Hippie: Ok fine, let's just start this chapter.

Marco stared ahead dead-pan at what was happening in front of him believing every second of it but wishing that disbelieving it would make it go away. In front of him in the Echo Creek school parking lot Oskar was trying to calm down the predatory like bird of paradise he had "tamed" during the surprising victory over the warriors and not doing the best job. What wasn't helping was that Oskar not only didn't sound commanding, which was needed to control an animal, but the bird seemed to be starving as it scooped up a random hotdog stand eating it whole.

"Floyd, how many times do I have to tell you, metal is bad for your diet man. I'm all for listening but don't eat actual metal." Oskar tried berating the bird but it more sounded like a stoner trying to get his friend to not burn all his stash. The bird responded by screeching like a red-tail hawk and bent down trying eat someone who had been at the hotdog stand. Marco sighed in annoyance face palming and walked up pulling out a whistle and blowing it at the bird making it and Oskar look at him in shock.

"DROP IT!" Marco pointed to the ground to which Floyd dropped the human from 10 feet off the ground having them land with a thud. Floyd then went over to Oskar chirping slightly while Marco ran over to see who was dropped and felt his heart skip a beat when he saw Ferguson getting up.

"I'm ok man, it's gonna take a lot more than that to beat me down." Ferguson got up as Alfonzo and Janna rounded a corner and ran up to see what was going on.

"Oskar's bird acting up again?" Alfonzo asked seemingly knowing what the answer would be with Marco giving it to him.

"Yep. He needs to properly train that thing before it actually does eat someone. And for that matter we need to find it an adequate supply of food before it scoops up more random hotdog stands or worse." Marco turned slightly to see the owner of the stand running away in fear screaming something about bad mushrooms while Oskar played music to calm down the bird turning to the group.

"I'm doing the best I can man; it's not easy when a bird the size of a trailer follows you around and your mom is too busy with her new "boyfriend" to help you out. All I have is the stuff in my car which I am fairly certain I am still not allowed to drive yet." Oskar pointed to a slightly run down car filled with junk that he was sitting on. Despite his appearance Oskar was actually 14 years old instead of the 16 everyone thought he was.

"Well we need to do something to help Oskar out, he's our friend." Ferguson commented with the group agreeing trying to think of something but not getting much. There was not a lot in terms of bulk food production or bird training for something like this on earth… 'wait, on earth.' Marco thought to himself and apparently Janna had the same idea as she spoke.

"We can't do much, but maybe Star can." Everyone one began looking at each other smiling and nodding realizing that this might be not only their best idea but the only good one. As they did this the bird picked up Oskar putting him in some sort of makeshift nest and sat on him like it would an egg chirping softly.

"We should go get her now right?" Marco asked everyone with them all agreeing, including Oskar who stuck his head out from under the bird.

Marco and company were at the entrance to Star's room with the group of four behind him murmuring in anticipation as this was the first time any of them aside from Marco had been in Star's room. The outside looked impressive so they were assuming the inside would be just as impressive with Marco thinking to himself 'I wonder what we actually will find in there?'

"Hey Star, can we talk to you…" Marco went to knock on the door but as he knocked it swung open automatically revealing a scene that made everyone stop cold.

Star was lying on some sort of pile of cushions with an array of heaters around her and some sort of giant heat lamp bearing light down on her. As she was lying there she was reading manga and eating from a MASSIVE pile of what looked like BBQ chicken wings with soft soothing music playing in the background that seemed both Japanese and Celtic in origin. What caught everyone off guard the most however was that Star was only wearing stark white underwear that complemented her skin tone and eye color exceedingly well. Star looked up to Marco's words and saw Janna, Oskar, Ferguson, and Alfonzo standing there and staring at her alongside Marco. Star sighed in annoyance and turned around so that she was in a kneeling position looking at the group giving a very good view of her form to everyone.

"Marco, I told you not to disturb me when I was in my zen time." Star crossed her arms and pouted at him making Marco blush slightly.

"Uhhhhm… Oskar is having uhhh, trouble with the ehm, bird you created and we uerm, need some advice on how to take care of it." Marco tried keeping his eyes from wandering over Star's incredibly athletic figure but was having trouble with it, and he noticed Ferguson and Alfonzo were having trouble as well. It also appeared as if Janna and Oskar had noticed them doing so as well.

Janna spoke first "Uhm Star, don't you wanna put some clothes on?" Star fixed Janna with an annoyed stare that could have melted rock.

"This is my room Janna and I like being in as few clothes as possible. In fact if I was back home I wouldn't even have underwear on; maybe you should stop being such a bunch of prudes." Star stared at them with Ferguson, Marco, and Alfonzo all blushing now at the image that was just conjured in their minds.

Oskar smacked Ferguson over the head outright and chastised him saying "Stop with the ogling man, Star's not a piece of meat." Ferguson was quick to reply however.

"Oh sure, but if Star was a boy would you and Janna not be doing the exact same thing?" The two stared at each other a second until realizing what they did and turned to see Star blushing slightly realizing what the issue was. Much to everyone's surprise however, instead of covering herself, Star took a bashful pose looking at them out of the corner of her eyes speaking softly.

"You… think I look pretty?" Everyone stared at Star not expecting this kind of reaction at all with Ferguson being the first to respond.

"Of course you're pretty Star. You are one of the prettiest girls I know." He pulled out his belly and made it talk as well. "I mean, do you know how attractive you just sitting in your underwear chilling on your off time is to some people like Ferguson here." Oskar would have smacked him again but held up as Star blushed giggling slightly.

"Sorry guys I… just thought Janna meant something else." Star composed herself a little bit and slid down from her stack of pillows facing them. "So what does the bird need?" Marco reacted as best he could but Oskar beat him to the punch.

"Floyd needs munchies and I need a way to keep him chill without playing music constantly man." Star smiled and nodded turning around to her closet.

"Well I think I know where we can get supplies to do both. I'll be out in a second." The group of course left the room as Star put clothes on stopping for a second to smile. "People think I'm actually pretty." Star giggled to herself as she got her clothes on.

"Welcome to Quest Buy!" Star stepped through the portal she cut with her friends following and gasping in awe.

Around them was what appeared to be a typical shopping mart but built like a medieval palace would have been built with vaulted ceilings and stone blocks used for the walls. The place was also massive with the ceiling easily a good 50 feet or more above them and they could tell it extended outwards for what seemed like miles even in their location. Around them were shelves and isles containing a wide variety of materials or products that were being looked over by a wide variety of entities and races of all shapes and sizes. As they were looking around a voice blared out over some sort of intercom system.

"Attention Quest Buy shoppers, we have a red ticket sale 25% off all things that murd- AHHHHH!" Janna, Alfonzo, Ferguson, Marco, and Oskar looked at each other with worried expressions at the scream as Alfonzo asked the question on everyone's minds.

"Are you sure it's safe to be here?" As he asked a small tray was shoved under his face with two beakers on it. One had some eyeballs floating in gelatinous goo and the other only had the goo in it.

"Sample?" Alfonzo looked up to see a fish person wearing a suit with no sleeves was holding the tray. "Either take a sample or leave a sample." Alfonzo's eyes rolled back into his head as he fainted with Ferguson catching him.

"Does anyone have cold water and a paper bag?" Ferguson asked the group as Janna walked up and took one of the eyeballs smiling devilishly.

"I could use this." Janna put it in her pocket as Marco grabbed her hand and pulled her away.

"First off, gross. Second, don't talk with creepy fish people offering up eyes and taking them from people as that always turns out bad." Marco spoke dragging Janna to where the group was starting to head with Janna noticing stuff around them.

"Ghost repellent, extra strength Gnome heads, I could shop here for hours." Janna smiled as Marco dragged her along as the group woke up Alfonzo giving him a paper bag. He began breathing into it speaking on occasion.

"What kind of *uses bag* store is this? *uses bag*" Star chuckled twirling her wand a little before replying.

"Only the one stop shop for everything anyone could want or need."

Oskar replied to her "Sounds like Walmart except more disorganized." Star blew upwards from her mouth pushing some of her hair in place.

"It only looks disorganized. Legends say that the founders of Quest Bug had an ancient cryptic system of symbols they used to organize the store." Star leaned in close to them with an eerie look in her eyes. "Some have gone mad trying to decipher it." The group turned as they heard an excited squeal from some sort of goblin like creature.

"I finally got it! House wares are that WAY!" He ran off laughing into a section that seemed to be filled with juice of some sort with a splat as he ran into something and a pool of juice began slowly expanding out of the section. "Everything going… tropical fruity." The group stared in its direction for a few more seconds until Oskar broke the silence.

"Well no system is needed here man, we got you to guide us and we're in no hurry." He strummed his keytaur as the group began following Star.

"Does he carry that thing with him everywhere he goes?" Star whispered to Marco who nodded with tired acceptance.

Mavis pinched the bridge between her eyebrows in frustration as she felt another migraine come on while holding onto the shopping cart with her other hand. 'How hard was it to keep these warriors in line?' She thought to herself as a barbarian who looked ordinary except for a long brown beard came up holding a dress meant for a 12 year old.

"Hey warchief, could we get this?" She pinched her bridge even harder as chuckles came from the group. Mavis replied in a tight clipped voice leaking frustration.

"It wouldn't even fit you. Why would you want it?"

"Oh it's not for me. Selene would look so cute in it." He smiled fluttering his eyes but froze when a pair of curved daggers poked either side of his throat. Selene's head came around over his left shoulder and whispered in his ear,

"Care to rephrase that?" He was saved however when a loud smacking with a smash following it signaled one of their comrades had been thrown into a stand by Dumnorix who bellowed at the warrior in anger.

"Stop sneaking things into the cart, our funds are short enough as is." He turned to a tall skinny barbarian holding a bag of "Beef Cake Muscle Growth Formula" and stared at him in disgust. "Same for you; you earn your muscles the old fashion way coward." Mavis raised her hand and did a trilling sound like a bird would make to call order to everyone making them look at her.

"Do I need to say this again? We are here only for new armor and weaponry equipment after what happened last attack with that boy punching through my elbow greeves; which we wouldn't have to do if you three had bothered to take care of our EQUIPMENT!" Mavis shouted the last part to the 3 barbarians standing on top of each other's shoulders who looked down in shame as everyone chastised them. "Now let's get moving. Oh clerk, helpful assistant." Mavis called out to a humanoid sloth wearing blue pants and a yellow shirt that turned around with a bored expression on his face. "Where might I find weapons and armor in this store?"

"That's not my department." Mavis blinked in annoyance pinching her bridge again.

"Direct me to someone then that does know, even if it's your manager." As she tried talking with the sloth clerk Selene turned her attention back to the barbarian still holding the dress.

"So, care to rephrase…"

"How are you even standing tall enough to do this, you're like a foot and a half shorter then me?" Selene fell silent as he glanced over his shoulder to see she was on a step stool. She withdrew her daggers and stepped aside glaring murder at him as she packed up her step stool and put it back where she found it.

"This is not over big boy." He shuddered slightly as Selene left but saw a familiar sight that made the feeling go away. Smiling evilly he went over to Mavis and spoke to her.

"How about something for free that you've always wanted?" Mavis and the clerk looked up in confusion until he pointed down an isle towards Star Butterfly walking down a different isle with people in tow. Mavis smiled and turned towards her group and the sloth.

"Nevermind on the equipment for now, we have a bigger prize in store to find."